Following drop in rate of interests by banks, the EPFO will have to change its strategy with regard to investment pattern to give better interest rate to its subscribers, said the Minister.

The EPFO recently announced that the rate of interest for this year would be 8.65 per cent. EPF subscribers got 8.80 per cent rate of interest on their PF savings in 2014-15 and 2015-16.

Dattatreya said presently EPFO can invest up to 20 per cent of its investable amount which is pegged at about Rs 1.3 lakh crore this year in Central Government PSUs and the Ministry plans to increase it to 30 per cent.

"We are also seriously thinking about it. Many public sector units need investments. We may invest more in them. We may change our priorities in future. We will concentrate more on Central Public Sector units," Dattatreya told .

"As of now, about seven PSUs came forward to take investments from us (EPFO). We received a communication from the Ministry of Finance to increase our investments in PSUs. The return may be higher than what we are getting now," he said.

He said the proposal to increase investments in PSUs will be placed before the next meeting of Central Board of Trustees (CBT) for ratification.

"We are planning to open a cell in our Ministry to study the future investment pattern. After finalising the patterns then the proposals will be placed before CBT for approval," he explained. (MORE) GDK RMT

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